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A review by susanpevensie
The Midwife and the Orc by Finley Fenn
Did not finish book. Stopped at 19%.
i picked this up because a fave author of mine recommended this a week ago. however, i hated the heroine so much that i couldn’t finish it. the author prefaced that the heroine was a smart character—that’s what drew me into reading this. however, she was far from it.
it was implied that her fiancé was cheating on her the majority of their engagement—i’m assuming it was years of relationship as they were childhood friends. however, she willingly chose to stay with him and even welcomed him back into her bed numerous times. it would be different if she didn’t know she was manipulated, okay? the thing is that, she knew. she even knew what he was doing when he was doing it. his false words meant to sweeten her. she just played along.
in the end, she left him which i commended her for. that’s where the book picked up. it’s when she got caught up in a stupid shit. again. she met an orc who barged into her house, sucked his finger—you know all that erotic shit. the next day, she succumbed to his seduction. at first i was like, for real? the book was only at the 11 percentage mark, but then i was like, nah as she should! she was in an unfulfilling relationship after all.
however she got all weird after that.
it was implied that her fiancé was cheating on her the majority of their engagement—i’m assuming it was years of relationship as they were childhood friends. however, she willingly chose to stay with him and even welcomed him back into her bed numerous times. it would be different if she didn’t know she was manipulated, okay? the thing is that, she knew. she even knew what he was doing when he was doing it. his false words meant to sweeten her. she just played along.
in the end, she left him which i commended her for. that’s where the book picked up. it’s when she got caught up in a stupid shit. again. she met an orc who barged into her house, sucked his finger—you know all that erotic shit. the next day, she succumbed to his seduction. at first i was like, for real? the book was only at the 11 percentage mark, but then i was like, nah as she should! she was in an unfulfilling relationship after all.
however she got all weird after that.
something brittle seemed to crack, deep in her chest, and there was an odd, quivering constriction in her throat. and good gods, she was not going to weep over an orc, and especially not while the orc dispassionately stood there and watched, and behaved as though this had meant nothing to him at all. as though she had meant nothing.
first of all, why was she so dramatic? she consented to sex with an orc, and orc who she met just the day before. she didn’t know him from adam. they were strangers! so i was confused as to why she was being acting like a betrayed girlfriend. it would be different had the author of this book developed their relationship first but they didn’t. because of this they made her reaction seemed so odd.
i looked up reviews to see if it gets any better but apparently she stayed her stupid self, and the hero ended up being a manipulative asshole. so yeah. fucking done.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm